iv. italy

I spent three months in the Summer of 2022 living and training in Florence, Italy. On my days off, I would take trains to different towns and cities and seek out different experiences and foods. I learned about gondoliers' preferred snacks (cicchetti) in Venice, drank just about all the wine in Montepulciano, ate pici in Lucca, found streets lined with orange trees in Viareggio, pesto and focaccia in Cinque Terre, and beyond.